Word: soles
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require all the instructors to provide tests of the progress of their students with sufficient frequency to enable them to enforce effectively section 7 of the regulations. That admonition be administered by the dean or by his sole authority, and that the powers of that office be so enlarged, at whatever increased expense it may be necessary to incur, that the records of attendance may always be ready for inspection by the proper officers. That the faculty be asked to prepare and report a series of rules which...
...with the intention of raising funds for the purchase of the right to excavate over the site of Delphi that Professor C. E. Norton of the University visited New York recently. His idea is to retain for American archaeologists the sole privilege of excavating on the site of the famous shrine. The English, Germans and French all have their particular spots upon which they are now carrying on their researches; while America is being distanced in this praiseworthy effort for the extension of knowledge concerning the relics of ancient art and learning. Dr. Schliemann, the eminent German excavator. has already...
...indulging in a few personal reminiscences. It was the end of his fortieth annual course of lectures in Chemistry. In 1849, to the class of which President Eliot was a member, was given the first instruction in chemistry in any American college. At that time Professor Cooke was the sole lecturer and teacher in the department of chemistry, and the accommodations for carrying on the work were exceedingly limited. The lectures were given in the room at the north end of Univesity, and were illustrated only by the crude and imperfect apparatus brought by Professor Cook from the laboratory which...
...acquaintance from existing between student and instructor. The converse is the exception, not the rule. Therefore no persuasion of ours is necessary to prevail upon any one to seize this opportunity of coming in personal contact with one whom we so admire and esteem in the lecture room. The sole cause for regret is that the absence from Cambridge of so many of us prevents us from availing ourselves of this valuable privilege...
...sole piece of verse in this number is entitled "Leap Year." The point is bright and well turned but is couched unfortunately in lines hardly poetic except in form...